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The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Gum tragacanth. Brande & C.

To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. Pope.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

aw; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

A postponement of the decision of a cause, for further consideration or re-argument.

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument. Johnson.

compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton.…

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).